Mark Slobin News Today

(JTA) - Late last year, months before a Russian missile landed near the Babyn Yar memorial outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, the sites foundation announced

'Song Searcher,' a new film about Moyshe Beregovsky, the Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist who traveled his native Ukraine in the 1930-40s, is all too relevant today

Moyshe Beregovsky, Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologistת traveled his native Ukraine in the 1930s and ’40s collecting Yiddish folk music and klezmer songs, interviewed residents and survivors of ghettos

“Song Searcher” isa new documentary about Moyshe Beregovsky, Jewish folklorist who traveled his native Ukraine in the 1930s and ’40s collecting Yiddish folk music and klezmer songs.

The story of a joint Smithsonian-Soviet-Ukrainian program in 1990 lends poignant resonance to Russia’s brutal invasion today

The film was shot on location in Ukraine, where the region is sadly once again embroiled in violence.

March 14 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Free Wesleyan U. professor emeritus Mark Slobin talks about how Yiddish songs were vital in the early 1900s, declined during Jewish assimilation and recovered after World War II. Presented by Jewish Community Library and KlezCalifornia. Free, with registration.

Reply (Marc J. Franklin) On January 31, 2021, the Workers Circle will present a Yiddish Schmooze featuring Zalmen Mlotek, the Artistic Director at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, which presented the award-winning Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish and whose parents were integral members of the Workers Circle and passionate proponents of Yiddish culture. During the hour-long virtual event, Director of Yiddish Programming Nikolai (Kolya) Borodulin will talk with Mr. Mlotek not only about Yid...